Medical Instrumentation 2

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Department of Circuit Theory

Synopsis:

This subject is intended for students interested in medical equipment. The course deals with various therapeutic equipment. The syllabus concentrates mainly on hearing aids, cochlear neuroprosthesis, therapeutic applications of ultrasound, design and utilisation of ultrasonic systems, therapeutic applications of lasers, the heart-lung machine and radiation equipment.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Introduction to therapeutic equipment, overview

2. Analogue and digital hearing aids, bone vibration based hearing aids

3. Auditory stimulation by electrical signal, cochlear neuroprosthesis

4. Therapeutic applications of the ultrasound, ultrasonic transducers

5. Ultrasound systems for surgery, urology and stomatology

6. Physical therapy, principles and equipment. Therapeutic light equipment

7. Electrotherapy, galvanotherapy, iontophoresis and magnetotherapy

8. Laser lithotripsy, lasers for surgical applications and stomatology

9. Lasers in ophthalmology, laser pfotocoagulation, photoablation process

10. Thermocauter, cryosurgical systems. Anaesthetic equipment

11. Spirometry, rhinometry

12. Heart-lung machine. Infant incubators

13. Radiotherapy, X radiation and high energy radiation equipment

14. Brachyradioterapy. Stereotactic radiosurgery, Leksell gamma knife

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Design of equivalent circuits of human ear

2. Comp. analysis of human ear equiv. circuits. Modelling of various ear diseases

3. Measurement of a transfer function of programmable hearing aids and bone aids

4. Measurement, processing an analysis of otoacoustic emissions

5. Measurements of frequency responses of cochlear neuroprotheses

6. Computer design of ultrasonic transducers (UT) for stomatology and dermatology

7. Measurements of computer designed ultrasonic transducers

8. Construction of power UT and their basic electrical parameters measurements

9. Propagation of ultrasonic waves in human body, UW velocity measurement.

10. Measurement of devices for low and middle frequency electrotherapy

11. Measurement of devices for low and middle frequency electrotherapy

12. Model of therapeutic effect of laser beam on human tissue, using FEM

13. Rhinometry. Determination of an impulse response of the upper airway area

14. Excursion to a teaching hospital

Study Objective:

Study materials:

[1] Webster, J. G.: Medical Instrumentation. Application and Design. 2. ed. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 1992

[2] Bronzino, J. D., editor in chief: The Biomedical Engineering Handbook. Boca Raton, Florida, CRC Press, 1995

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Biomedicínské inženýrství - inženýrský blok (compulsory course)
• Biomedicínské inženýrství - inženýrský blok (compulsory course)